One of the reasons why the decision was made to complete a major renovation project on North Fourth Avenue, from Michigan to Jefferson Street in Sturgeon Bay this year, was the need to provide a detour route for the Bay View Bridge project in 2013. City Engineer Tony Depies explains why an upgraded Fourth Avenue is an ideal detour route…
[audio:http://wdor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Depies01.mp3|titles=Depies01]Considering all the the public works projects near Sturgeon Bay’s downtown in recent years, some business people had asked for a breather from street work. However, that action would mean that the Fourth Avenue makeover wouldn’t happen until 2014, too long to wait to fix one of the worst streets in the city.
